"confuse for"

[Jonathan Lighter]

>From a journalistic website:

http://www.livescience.com/11341-good-food-bad.html :

"What a pity that most Americans have never eaten pizza and confuse it for
the junk food advertised on television. In Italy there are laws defining
pizza."

With > for?  Or mistake > confuse?  Or both?

JL

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